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A ₹4.05-crore Detailed Feasibility Report (DFR) for overhauling coagulated discarded absorption contracts was floated precocious to “transform 12 highly-populated Municipal Corporations into garbage-free cities”, with a model introducing performance-linked parameters for stricter contractor accountability.
“Before these 12 corporations and municipalities interval caller tenders, the DFR volition survey champion practices and cardinal parameters for monitoring coagulated discarded management. The model volition beryllium tightened successful enactment with nationalist and planetary champion practices and volition besides conform to the Solid Waste Management Rules 2026,” a elder authoritative told The Hindu.
The tender was floated done the Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited (TNUIFSL) for preparing a DFR relating to Solid Waste Management (SWM) nether the Project Development Grant Fund successful 3 packages of ₹1.35 crore each.
The deadline for online connection submissions is July 27, 2026.
The 12 municipal corporations grouped successful 3 packages are Avadi, Hosur, Tambaram and Vellore; Coimbatore, Erode, Salem and Tiruppur; and Madurai, Thoothukudi, Tiruchirappalli and Tirunelveli. The authoritative said the workout applies lone to the 12 municipal corporations wherever existing three-year outsourced conservancy agreements are nearing completion.
The earlier contracts were sanctioned nether Government Order No. 116 issued by the Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department connected August 24, 2022. “Solid discarded absorption successful these circumstantial municipality section bodies has been carried retired exclusively by backstage agencies for the past 3 years, and nary caller geographical zones oregon civic wards are being handed implicit to backstage players,” helium said.
Some of the regulations successful the determination tenders floated successful 2022 were “very loose”, and operated connected basal manpower deployment and garbage tonnage metrics, the authoritative added.
Under the projected framework, contractor payments and penalties are expected to beryllium linked to show indicators specified arsenic the timely deployment of discarded postulation vehicles, attraction of nationalist toilets and deployment of conservancy workers for nighttime cleaning operations, helium added.
